My husband recently became a real
estate agent. Real-estate is his passion and plays a big role in the types of
shows we watch. There is a plethora of ‘home shows’ including House Hunters,
Love it or List it, Million dollar listings and Property Brothers. As the
supportive wife, I have been started watching these shows with him. One of the
new shows we started watching is Property Brothers.
The premise of the show is
brothers’ Drew and Jonathan Scott find couples that want to buy a house that is
out of their price range. They convince them a fixer upper is the way to go.
The show follows the challenges and benefits of doing a renovation.
When I watched the show with no
sound I realized how much of an impact nonverbal communication has on
communication. The facial expressions of the couples said a lot. For example,
when they went into the decoy home the facial expressions were of excitement
and awe until they realized the home wasn’t affordable and the instant shift to
disappointment and anger when they realized they couldn’t afford the home. Watching
the process of renovating the home I could tell through the body language and
expressions what they couples were feeling. It was often a rollercoaster of ups
and downs between excitement and frustration/anger.
Watching the show with sound made
me more aware of how nonverbal and verbal communication goes together and can
contradict each other. For example, the couple’s non-verbal communication was
clearly showing excitement and the verbal communication supported that.
However, there was an situation during the renovation when the body language of
the couple clearly showed anger and defensiveness but the verbal language was
contradicting that.
Watching the show with both the
sound on and off made me more aware of the detail involved in communication. I
often listen to what is being said rather than paying attention to the
non-verbal cues. This assignment made me focus more on the message nonverbal
communication rather than verbal language.
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